Ready to resolve your problem?

The shortest distance between your dispute and its resolution

Settle fast: some claims settle in days or even hours, depending on your demands and claim details; others may take longer.

Your claim stays posted until resolved to YOUR satisfaction.

No lawyers, courts, or complicated processes — all online.

Our online mediators compete to find the best resolution to your case.

Premium options to help resolve it faster

FREE to file and settle

Add public posting: $14.99

Notify regulators and/or media: $14.99

Deliver your claim by regular mail: $4.99

All the above : $25.00

Learn more about how PeopleClaim offers you the most affordable path to justice.

How to get started

It's easy. Explain your problem and state what you want. Takes about 5-8 minutes.

You can request cash, non-cash items, or choose "Just make me happy" to request a fair offer from the other party.

PeopleClaim will deliver your claim with a 10-day deadline for resolution. After ten days you can post it for public review, comment, and suggestions for settlement from our community of online mediators.

Equal and universal civil justice

Our goal is to provide justice for all, regardless of the size of your claim or access to financial or legal resources. We've helped more than 50,000 businesses and consumers address problems of all sizes and types. PeopleClaim empowers people by offering a win-win solution for both sides — without expensive or complicated court processes.

A new and better way to resolve any dispute – large or small

People claim is a totally new way to resolve disputes and complaints against businesses, professionals, landlords, employers, or anyone else who’s treated you unfairly – all online and without costly lawyers, courts, or time-consuming processes.

More than 50,000 businesses and consumers have used PeopleClaim to get their cases heard, get resolution, and avoid the expense and complication of traditional legal processes.

Finally: affordable access to justice for everyone and every case

While getting your case resolved will depend on the case details, reasonableness of your demands, and other factors, PeopleClaim gives you an effective and extremely low-cost first-line resolution option that puts the power of the court of public opinion on your side. We’ve helped thousands of consumers, patients, employees, and others get justice – in many cases after they were told that they had no chance of winning. Our goal is to provide online access to justice at a fraction of the cost of traditional legal processes. We’re leveling the playing field for everyone, regardless of their financial or legal resources.

What does it cost to resolve a dispute?
(PeopleClaim's resolution services go from free to ridiculously inexpensive)
Choose the option that works best for you:

Add public posting — Lets the other party know your claim will post online if unresolved after 10 days. Provides a powerful and ongoing incentive for settlement — and a deadline. Recommended.

$14.99

Mail — Copy your complaint by regular mail to ensure it gets the attention it deserves.

Start from $4.99

Notify regulators, watchdogs and media — Your claim will be cc'd to relevant regulators, watchdogs, and media at the national, state, and/or local levels if not resolved to your satisfaction. Lets them know you mean business.

$14.99

Value package — Get all the above services at a 20% discount. Best value.

$25.00

Stay protected all year. — Get a PeopleClaim membership and file up to 360 claims per year with free public posting, plus 50% off regular mail and copying claims to regulators.

Why PeopleClaim works

PeopleClaim works because businesses are increasingly aware of the influence of social media and public opinion. Our unique online community dispute resolution process (OCDRTM) provides powerful incentives for fair and prompt resolution of your case.

Helps get your case heard at the highest levels of any organization.

Reflects public opinion about the fairness of your claim.

Exposes bad business and unfair treatment.

Creates competition to find the best resolution to your problem.

Join the thousands of people who’ve resolved their disputes on PeopleClaim.

Note: PeopleClaim does not guarantee results. Resolution times and results will vary depending on case details, the reasonableness of your demands, the responding party, and other factors beyond our control. While we can’t guarantee outcomes, we give you powerful and cost-effective tools to help you get the best resolution to your problem.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Community dispute resolution is PeopleClaim's new way to resolve disputes that engages the public to help in the resolution process and create greater access to justice. OCDR allows Peoplecaim users to post their disputes publicly (without the claiming party’s name or private info), and invite our community of online mediators to review, comment on, and propose creative resolutions to help bring both sides to a successful settlement. OCDR is a fairness-based system, which works because businesses and other organizations are increasingly aware of public opinion about the fairness of their policies and actions. OCDR can create a “public verdict” about the fairness of your claim and the best terms under which it should be resolved. OCDR is the future of justice – it's affordable to anyone, effective, and better reflects public expectations for fair treatment and good business practices.

PeopleClaim’s OCDR process differs from traditional mediation and other forms of dispute resolution in several ways. It's generally much cheaper (free to extremely low cost) because our community helps resolve your case. It doesn’t require the consent of the other party to start a case – although cases are settled when both parties agree to terms of resolution submitted by either party or by the online mediation community. You and the other party can receive multiple resolutions from our community mediators to choose from. Cases may be negotiated in public or private at the claiming party’s option. Also, resolving a case on PeopleClaim doesn’t require court appearances, legal representation, or complicated processes. Simply tell the other party why you’re dissatisfied and what you want to make it right.

PeopleClaim can help resolve a wide variety of dispute types and sizes in almost any location. You an use PeopleClaim as a first line of resolution to any claim. If your claim isn’t resolved by OCDR you can always pursue traditional options such as formal mediation or litigation. Our goal is to give you an effective, quick, and cost-effective way to resolve your dispute without the expense or hassle of courts or other processes. PeopleClaim cannot be used for certain types of claims where preempted by law, such as claims against businesses or individuals operating under bankruptcy protection.

Claims typically take 7-12 minutes to file depending on how much information you
want to include. We've made it easy to file: you don't need to speak "legalese;"
just state what happened and what you want. You can return to your claim at any
time to add info or make changes.

That depends on the nature of your claim, the reasonableness of your demands, and
the motivation of the other party to do the right thing and manage their online
reputation. Claims can be resolved in as little as a few hours; others take longer.
In some cases claims are resolved after people with similar problems file additional
claims, which can increase the incentive for the party you're filing against.

You can use PeopleClaim to resolve a dispute against anyone, anywhere, including
product and service providers, police and government agencies, professionals, and
individuals. In cases where the counterparty has filed for bankruptcy, users are
strongly encouraged to check relevant laws. In general it is illegal to try to collect
from a business operating under federal bankruptcy protection.

PeopleClaim allows you engage any individual, business, or goverment agency in a
negotiated process of dispute resolution. We send your claim demands by email, physical
delivery, and/or posting on the web. Not responding to claims results in a downgrading
of the party's PeopleClaim reliabilty rating, and claim details remain posted on
the web until they're resolved to your satisfaction.

You need the name of the business or other party you're filing against. It's best
to have an email address for them too, but not essential. You can add as much or
as little information as you want to suppport your claim. In general it's best to
stick to simple facts and what you are asking for. The other party can request additional
facts, and you can always add supporting documentation later.

You can file up to three claims per month for free. Optional services, including
having your claim post publicly, copied to regulators, or sent by mail, involve
small fees: public posting, $14.99; delivery by regular mail, $4.99; copying your
claim to regulators, $14.99, A discounted bundled rate for all three of these optional
services is $25.00.

You can use PeopleClaim to file up to three claims per month at no charge, and use
the system for as long as it takes to resolve the claim. Because free claims make
it harder to know the identity of the filer, they do not include public posting.
They also are not eligible for third-party recommendations, and if unresponded to
they do not count against the other party's reliability rating. There are no hidden
charges in filing or resolving a PeopleClaim; however if your claim is not resolved
we may suggest you try one or more premium options to expedite resolution.

PeopleClaim offers a powerful automated peer-to-peer system that allows you
to engage counterparties in an online process of claim statement, negotiation, and
resolution. Our goal is to make PeopleClaim affordable and easy to use for any type
of complaint or dispute.

PeopleClaim is an independent resolution channel that allows users to exercise their
rights to resolve disputes through direct negotiation and in a public forum. It
does not require lawyers, mediators, or knowlege of law, and avoids many of the
restrictions and costs of formal legal process.

PeopleClaim does not refer cases to lawyers and is not a legal referral service.
However, if your claim posts publicly and you enabled the lawyer-contact feature
when you filed your claim, lawyers may review the details of your claim online and
contact you to discuss your case.

PeopleClaim cannot guarantee claims will be resolved; however if you choose the
public posting option we do guarnatee that if it's not resolved to your satsifaction
it will remain online and available to search engine queries and public comment.
This provides a powerful and ongoing incentive to fair resolution. We also offer
a money back guarantee on the public posting fee if your claim is not resolved in
90 days. Charges for physical mail delivery and copying to regulators are not refundable.

Businesses today want to do the right thing, or at least appear to do the right
thing. Exposure of bad behavior has become a stronger motivation in many cases than
going to court. Public posting on PeopleClaim allows search engines to index your
claim and make it easy for people to discover your problem. Bad behavior or unfair
treatment is a turnoff to other consumers using the web to make purchasing or hiring
decisions. The more people filing against the same party the stronger the incentive
to setttlement, which means that most businesses would rather fix a problem that's
disclosed online than let it remain posted. By making a claim public, you may also
be able to get the public to weigh in on suggestions for resolving your complaint.

The PeopleClaim system encourages the public to offer suggestions that both parties
can "like" as potential solutions to their dispute, thereby forming a basis for
potential settlement. There's a scoring system and participants compete to offer
the best and fairest resoluton suggestions. Such crowdsourced solutions reflect
public expectations of fairness and good business behavior. Any company interested
in its online reputation will consider these in deciding what to do about your claim.
Each case is different, but if public viewers find your case interesting you could
be on the receiving end of fresh ideas that move things toward resolution.

Yes. PeopleClaim allows you to communicate with claimants who've agreed to receive
communications from other parties. You can share information, pool resources, and
compare notes about the party you're filing against.

PeopleClaim helps businesses manage their online reputations through prompt and
fair settlement of claims posted through the PeopleClaim system. A business's PeopleClaim
reliabiltiy rating is determined largely by their resposiveness to PeopleClaims
filed against them – and maintaining a high rating is a strong incentive to fair
resolution. Publicly posted PeopleClaims bring issues to light that responsible
businesses want to know about and fix.

Every business owner knows the secret to retaining customers and avoiding litigation
risk is to resolve disputes early and fairly. PeopleClaim is your online channel
to discover complaints and resolve them quickly, efficiently, and at low cost. PeopleClaim's
process makes it easy to promote an online reputation and keep customers happy.
We also offer a WeCare premium profile for businesses and professionals. A WeCare
profile helps drive customers to your website and FaceBook page, and lets you communicate
directly with customers to help resolve disputes constructively. Learn more
about about WeCare profiles

Open to all. Help resolve complaints and disputes by offering your ideas. It's easy.

Choose a claim from the list.

Review the details.

Tell the parties how you think it can be most fairly and best resolved – e.g., "Claimant
deserves payment or other compensation," etc.

If the parties settle based on your suggestion you can win points – or cash rewards
if applicable. (If you win cash you choose to keep it or donate to one of our participating
nonprofit public justice organizations.)

Get started with a PeopleClaim public mediation profile and help resolve cases now.

Natalie F.

"It had been two months and she'd avoided us completely – and then the next day after I made a PeopleClaim she got back to me right away. If I hadn't had PeopleClaim I would have been out several hundred dollars."

Margie B.

"I know I didn't have any idea that I would have won the case, especially so quickly. They actually did something that I thought was impossible, and I'm thrilled."

Greg J.

"I filed a claim on Thursday afternoon; on Monday morning the corporate headquarters called and said 'We'd love to assist you and of course we'll give you a new computer.' It gave me terrific leverage."

Are you a lawyer, mediator, or legal professional?

Now you can refer cases to PeopleClaim that aren't viable for your practice. It's a compassionate and socially responsible way to deal with this ongoing need. See how you can benefit by joining PeopleClaim's Legal Professional Case Referral Network. For more information contact legal@peopleclaim.com

What does it cost to resolve a dispute? (PeopleClaim's
resolution services go from free to ridiculously inexpensive)
Choose the option that works best for you:

Add public posting — Lets the other party know your claim will post
online if unresolved after 10 days. Provides a powerful and ongoing incentive for
settlement — and a deadline. Recommended.

$14.99

Mail — Copy your complaint by regular mail to ensure it gets the attention
it deserves.

Start from $4.99

Notify regulators, watchdogs and media — Your claim will be cc'd to
relevant regulators, watchdogs, and media at the national, state, and/or local levels
if not resolved to your satisfaction. Lets them know you mean business.

$14.99

Value package — Get all the above services at a 20% discount. Best
value.

$25.00

Stay protected all year. — Get a PeopleClaim membership and file up
to 360 claims per year with free public posting, plus 50% off regular mail and copying
claims to regulators.